Underlined text indicates another language being spoken. Usually in Japan, this will be English, but once we switch to English, it will indicate Japanese being spoken
(Blah blah blah) indicates Hikari Mindlink
"Blah blah blah" indicates minkspeak between yami and hikari's telepathy or written works (Paper, letters, ect)
(blah blah blah) – Hikari mind link
Chapter 3
Jobs
It took them a few hours to calm Yugi down and to get him home.
The next day they were pelted by owls with letters attached to them. After reading the first one and seeing that it was from the school that Dumbledore mentioned, they either burned them or made paper mache out of them.
It was only after they had made a life sized Kuriboh (Puhara modeling), Revival Jam and Change of Heart did they read it and decide to go to the park where Dumbledore wanted to meet them.
"I assume you got the letters" Dumbledore said as they approached him on the day of the meeting.
"Yes" Malik said, showing him the first letter he had gotten.
Mr M Ishtar
The First Bedroom
Flat 646
South Street
Domino
Japan
"Here's mine" Ryou said, flashing his.
Mr R Bakura
The First Bedroom
Flat 646
South Street
Domino
Japan
"Here" Yugi said, briefly showing his.
Mr Y Moto
The Third Bedroom
Flat 646
South Street
Domino
Japan
Nodding to show that he had seen them, he said "I understand that you have been burning half of my letters and making strange statues out of the other half."
"Yes, they make for good fire paper" Ryou said, smirking.
"Yes, well can I ask why you wouldn't read what's inside until a few days ago?" Dumbledore asked.
"Because we don't want anything to do with your school of your world" Malik said, as Puhara hissed at his feet.
"Why not?" Dumbledore asked as his attention was caught by the strange creature at Mr Ishtar's feet. It certainly didn't look like any dog he had ever seen (Magical or otherwise), and from what he could tell, these people hadn't even known about the magical world until about a week ago, so that creature whatever it was, wasn't a magical creature.
"We have our reasons" Malik said, keeping an eye on their surroundings in case someone saw Puhara, thankfully the only people who saw her were Dumbledore and themselves and he could always mind wipe him later if need be.
Dumbledore tried to find a subject to change the conversation to. His gaze eventually fell on their unusual hair.
"Your hair" he started.
"It's natural" Malik answered, as if he got that question all the time, cutting him off.
"Oh no, it's just that it looks remarkably like the hair styles of some of my students" Dumbledore said, knowing at last that he had gotten their full and undivided attention.
"You have students-" Malik started.
"-With hair like-" Ryou continued.
"-Ours?" Yugi finished.
(Could it,)
(Really be,)
(Our Yami's?") Yugi, Ryou and Malik asked each other at the same time through their mindlink.
"What do you mean, you have students with hair styles like ours attending our school?" Malik asked, after several minutes of talking with Yugi and Ryou through their mindlink.
"If I tell you, will you come to my school and teach as professors?" Dumbledore asked, seeing that they might actually think this through.
"Ye-"
"Wait Malik" Ryou interpreted, "We don't even know what he wants us to teach" he said to the Egyptian, who wisely shut up.
"If you accept, you could teach either Ancient Runes, an elective course at Hogwarts, that can be taken by students third year and above, Ancient Runes is a mostly theoretical subject that studies the ancient runic scripts of magic." Dumbledore said, briefly explaining it.
"So, I don't need one of those sticks?" Malik asked.
"No" Dumbledore said, wondering what could have happened to get these people so afraid of a simple wand.
"What is the second job?" Ryou asked.
"The second is Divination. Divination is another elective for third years and above that teaches methods of divining the future, or gathering insights into future events, through various rituals and tools. You won't need a wand for this class either."
"And the third?" Yugi asked.
"The last is History of Magic. History of Magic is a required class for all students at least up to their fifth year attending Hogwarts. The class is a study of magical history" Dumbledore explained. "It's basically like a muggle history class except it has wizard dates and wars."
"What's a 'muggle'?" Malik asked.
"A muggle is a person without any magical power in them at all" Dumbledore explained. "Now, I answered one of your questions now you have to answer one of mine."
"What!" Malik yelled, outraged.
"It's only fair" he said, looking at them.
"Fine" Malik sulked, after he had been out voted by both Yugi and Ryou.
"What is that?" Dumbledore asked, pointing towards the ground at Malik's feet.
"The ground" Malik said very slowly, as if explaining to a deaf person.
Dumbledore now looked down and saw that the small brown creature had disappeared.
"Now we get to ask you to please wait one week for our answer" Malik said, starting to smirk as they all turned and started to walk away.
"You're just going to leave when you feel like it?" Dumbledore asked feeling a little annoyed that they would pay him so little respect.
"Yeah, it's too hot to stay here for much longer" Malik said as they prepared the Shadows to leave. "We will return here in one week, if you come back then, then we will give you our answer.
Moreover, before Dumbledore could say another word, they had vanished in a dark, crackling cloud.
There was laughter that night in the apartment.
"I still can't believe that he didn't notice your hair moving on its own as you left Yugi" Malik cackled as they were eating dinner.
"If he did, he probably thought that it was the wind" Yugi answered.
"There wasn't any wind there" Ryou cut in.
"So? It's a good cover story if he did see the hair move" Malik said.
There was silence for a few minutes before Ryou asked "Did you get his memories?"
They had agreed that in order to see what this man was like, they would 'borrow' some of his memories.
"Did you get the memories?" Yugi asked as Malik's grin began to grow and Ishizu and Odion left to go and wash the dishes.
"Yep" Malik said, thinking about how easy it was to break into his mind. He had been surprised by mental shields but they paled in comparison to the power of his Millennium Rod. He had gotten the memories in around five minutes flat and without alerting Dumbledore to his presence.
"Awesome, we can watch them later on the-"
"Quiet, someone's there!" a voice interrupted Yugi.
Turning, they saw Puhara floating near one of the windows, pointing out of it.
"Now that they were focusing, they could sense Dumbledore's magic outside the window that Puhara was pointing at.
"Chain Energy" Ryou muttered.
There was a few seconds wait while the spell activated before they could clearly sense his magic mixing with their Shadow magic. They could also hear a small yelp as he was suddenly tied up.
"Chains bring him in here please" Ryou said. The others watched as the yellow ropes came through the wall, bringing a bound Dumbledore with them.
Puhara had floated/hid under the table. She had already been seen by Dumbledore once and had no desire to be seen again. No one but the item holders and people who knew of the Shadow Realm were supposed to know that she even existed.
"Malik, Yugi, Ryou, what is going on? I thought I sensed-" Ishizu question was answered as she stepped back into the dining room.
"Sister, may I?" Malik begged, after Ishizu had assessed the situation.
"Before, I make my decision, tell me what he did" Ishizu said, knowing that there must have been a good reason for them to use the Shadow realm to tie up the snooping headmaster.
"He was eavesdropping through the window" Yugi said, pointing to said window.
"What did you hear?" Ishizu asked, turning towards Dumbledore.
However, Dumbledore seemed incapable of speaking now and she soon gave up.
"I'm not sure but, I think he definitely heard the bit about the you-know-what-realm," Yugi said, inching away from Malik, who was looking like Christmas had come early.
"Alright Malik, you can do what you want with him, on 5 conditions;" Ishizu said.
"1. Don't kill him."
"Would I ever kill someone?"... "Wait, don't answer that."
"2. Don't cause him to go insane."
"Don't answer that either."
"3. Erase his memories and release him in one hour."
"Plenty of time and besides, I was going to do that anyway." Mailk said.
"4. Wait until we all leave this room before you start. I don't think any of us have any want to actually particpate in any of the games you probably have planned."
"Fine."
"5. You show us the memories that you collected earlier, afterwards."
"Ok, you now have 30 seconds to leave the room, starting...now" Malik said, almost bursting with excitement as having permission to play Shadow games without being punished for it.
"1...2...3..."
"Let's go" Ryou said, having no desire to have anything to do with Malik's games.
Puhara quickly dashed out of the room and the others followed suit. They got out of the room with 10 seconds to spare.
A/N:
1. Yugi doesn't get scared of all twigs. Just twigs or branchs that look simmilar to the wands that he saw before.
2 . Like what happened with Harry in his 1st year except Yugi and everyone else is a little better at destroying/removing/changing the evidence.
3. You wouldn't ever considering what happened, you wouldn't want anything to do with the magical world at all.
4. Yeah... I don't think that they're going to be showing Dumbledore much respect considering that they know that they could easily overpower him in a fight.
5. Malik can use the rod to mind control people, so it only makes sense that he can see and store memories in it for later use. (I think that his used an ability like it in Battle City.)
6. When the hikari's were split form Yami and the others, the Shadow realm granted them a little of it's power incase they needed to defend themselves. (Mainly for Yugi's benifit because Malik could already use the power cause of his Tomb Keeper training and Ryou could use it after seeing and feeling Bakura use it.)
7. Mind erasing, the ultimate reset code.
8. There will probably will be Dumbledore bashing later in the story.